Design for Bantayan will be presented:
Thursday 27 February 2014
Time 18:30
Cafe Bily Konicek
National Museum of Ethnography
Warsaw, ul. Kredytowa 1
FB event in Polish
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Here's a brief description and backgroud of the project (original Polish version, click here):
The tourist season in the Philippines was about to start, and along with it, our ten-day vacation. Three weeks before departure we saw devastation and tragedy in the media. The largest typhoon the world had ever seen had just hit the Philippines. In spite of this we decided we would go help out rather than go on a classic vacation. This is how the project began - a comprehensive plan to help the inhabitants of the island of Bantayan, giving them the opportunity to work and earn once again.
The island found itself in the red zone, where the typhoon hit the hardest. Projections clearly indicated that this area would literally be in the eye of the storm. The prediction proved to be one hundred percent correct. Yolanda, (after traveling 1,200 kilometers from where she formed), hit the small Philippine island of Bantayan on the morning of November 8, 2013. Witnesses recounted to us that 2 hours after the first wave of impact they saw an extraordinary phenomenon high above their heads - an enormous pronounced circle with blue sky peering through - the eye of the storm. After this event there was another, even stronger attack. The Wind speed was estimated at 280km / h.
